Monthly Archives: October 2009

Economic Crisis related links for October 31st, 2009

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Karl

LA Independent: A one-man street team: Once one of Hollywood’s homeless, Mark Horvath turns his knack for storytelling into a personalized video chronicle of a national tragedy.: Through his experiences, he has come to realize that the only way to … Continue reading →

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Internet life links for October 31, 2009

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Karl

Alex Hillman recently tweeted: “Twitter lists illustrate the most important shift in the internet: your bio is now written by others, and what they say about you.” He follows up with a longer piece on his blog. Google Wave: we … Continue reading →

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Will Bunch: “The day Philly stopped being a joke”

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Karl

Will Bunch: “The day Philly stopped being a joke”: Everyone said the real problem was that Philadelphia — the nation’s sixth largest city and fourth largest TV market, birthplace of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution — … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Karl

YouTube: The Ramones Pet Sematary:

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Unit Testing Python Links

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Karl

OnLamp.com: Jason Diamond: Test-Driven Development in Python OnLamp.com: Jason Diamond: More Test-Driven Development in Python AgileTesting: Python Unit Testing Part 1 AgileTesting: Python Unit Testing Part 2 StackOverflow: Python Doctest vs Unittest Ian Bicking: Behavior Driven Programming

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Alfresco’s DM Versus AVM

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Karl

Jeff Potts: Understanding the differences between Alfresco’s repository implementations.

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Whitehouse.gov moves to Drupal

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Karl

Dries Buytaert: Whitehouse.gov using Drupal Tim O’Reilly: Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal PDF: WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal Content Here: Is Drupal the right platform for whitehouse.gov? I think you can trace this way back to 2004 and Howard Dean’s … Continue reading →

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News site redesigns afoot

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Karl

CNN.com Salon.com Locally, Philly.com Sports Earlier: Yahoo! News

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NPR’s Daniel Jacobson shares details on their CMS ecosystem

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Karl

Programmable Web: COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere Programmable Web: Content Modularity: More Than Just Data Normalization What strikes me is the focus on data storage and the emphasis on normalizing it to a modular form that enables re-use. I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Python links for October 28th, 2009

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Karl

Dive Into Python: Chapter 11. HTTP Web Services IBM developerWorks: Working with Web server logs ActiveState: Python recipes PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook: PLEAC – Python

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